German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is sticking to plans to legalize cannabis by placing legislation before parliament next month, despite opposition within Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition. “I am continuing to assume that the Cannabis Act will be passed by the Bundestag in the week between February 19 and 23 and will go into force from April 1,” Lauterbach told the Sunday edition of the Welt daily newspaper. Talks on the act were going well, the minister said in remarks released ahead of publication. Internal affairs politicians within the Social Democrats (SPD), of which both …